General rules of team round tournament

1. Creation of the games

(a) Each team introduces a representative for each country which will complete tables in the following way (unless specified otherwise by tournament) :

Example 7 teams:

Country	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
Germany	Ger team 1	Ger team 2	Ger team 3	Ger team 4	Ger team 5	Ger team 6	Ger team 7
England	Eng team 2	Eng team 3	Eng team 4	Eng team 5	Eng team 6	Eng team 7	Eng team 1
Austria	Aus team 3	Aus team 4	Aus team 5	Aus team 6	Aus team 7	Aus team 1	Aus team 2
France	Fra team 4	Fra team 5	Fra team 6	Fra team 7	Fra team 1	Fra team 2	Fra team 3
Italy	Ita. team 5	Ita. team 6	Ita. team 7	Ita. team 1	Ita. team 2	Ita. team 3	Ita. team 4
Russia	Rus team 6	Rus team 7	Rus team 1	Rus team 2	Rus team 3	Rus team 4	Rus team 5
Turkey	Tur team 7	Tur team 1	Tur team 2	Tur team 3	Tur team 4	Tur team 5	Tur team 6

Example 8 teams:

(Please note the additional shift on the first line to improve the distribution):

Country	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
Germany	Ger team 8	Ger team 1	Ger team 2	Ger team 3	Ger team 4	Ger team 5	Ger team 6	Ger team 7
England	Eng team 2	Eng team 3	Eng team 4	Eng team 5	Eng team 6	Eng team 7	Eng team 8	Eng team 1
Austria	Aus team 3	Aus team 4	Aus team 5	Aus team 6	Aus team 7	Aus team 8	Aus team 1	Eng team 2
France	Fra team 4	Fra team 5	Fra team 6	Fra team 7	Fra team 8	Fra team 1	Fra team 2	Fra team 3
Italy	Ita. team 5	Ita. team 6	Ita. team 7	Ita. team 8	Ita. team 1	Ita. team 2	Ita. team 3	Ita team 4
Russia	Rus team 6	Rus team 7	Rus team 8	Rus team 1	Rus team 1	Rus team 3	Rus team 4	Rus. team 5
Turkey	Tur team 7	Tur team 8	Tur team 1	Tur team 2	Tur team 3	Tur team 4	Tur team 5	Tur team 6

(b) Should there be players that want to play and cannot find a team, they will be (by the organizer) randomly grouped to a team or put on a waiting list if not enough.

2. On going of the games

(a) The composition of the tables is/will be communicated at the date provided in tournament specificities (except if tournament is anonymous).

(b) The name of the tables is/will be indicated in tournament specificities.

(c) No postponing of deadline could be carried out at the request of players with an aim of synchronizing or of putting in advance the resolution of a game compared to another (in an intent of cross gaming even if cross gaming is allowed on tournament).

(d) Unless stated otherwise in tournament specificities, the games will be synchronized before:

Median seasonal resolution of movement (obtained by the whole division of the number of such resolutions). Example: tournament in 9 diplomatic years, 18 such resolutions, 9th is that of spring 1905)
Spring and Autumn of the last diplomatic year of the tournament.

(e) The games may also be synchronized before Spring of the first diplomatic year of the tournament, as the tournament director decides.

(f) For the synchronized resolutions:

Game masters (or the director of tournament) could be less tolerant on the postpone of deadline, because the postponing applies to all the games.
postponing of the deadline on a game will be reflected on the others for the adjudication of movements.
NMR which must be awaited defers in fact the adjudications on all the game.

(g) The tournament director will constantly make an effort to keep the games in line as much as possible; I.e. speeding up the latest games and delaying the most advanced ones.

(h) There will not be official roles as Game Supervisors on tournaments. Yet, on an informal basis, every team representative at the committee may be appointed by tournament organizer to check the good ongoing of one specific game, preferably a game where he and his team are not involved.

3. Determination of the winners of the trophies awarded by the players for the round (only for a team tournament)

(a) The team whose members are the most once nominated (by their adversaries on their game) for a trophy player wins it. One will proceed by simple addition of the number of nominations.

(b) In the event of equality on one of the trophies, it is not allotted.

(d) The results of the votes for the tournament will be visible only after tournament closure (as well as the number of voices collected by each team).

4. Rankings in the round of the tournament

(a) For all rankings on any round of a tournament :

a solo winner will be better than a non solo winner
a solo victim will be worse than a non solo victim
an earlier solo winner will be better than a later solo winner
an earlier solo victim will be worse than a later solo victim
points are carried out with one decimal digit, so 1/2 = 1.5 and 2/3 = 1.6

(b) For all rankings on any round of an individual tournament:

difficulty of country played will be first tie-breaker
points without team bonus (if applicable) will be second tie -breaker
ranking points (fewest centres) will be third tie -breaker
team ranking will be fourth tie-breaker

team ranking will be first tie-breaker
difficulty of country played will be second tie-breaker
ranking points (fewest centres) will be third tie-breaker

5. Rounds within the tournament

(a) All tournaments rounds will start in September and finish no later than June of the following year (unless specified otherwise by tournament)